Intercession

The prayer outlasted the one who made it. Somewhere in the repetition the hands stopped belonging to a body and started belonging to the act itself — opening, closing, opening, the gesture eating its own origin. Joy and grief had been the same motion for so long that naming either felt like a choice made in bad faith. At the end a face. At the end a mouth with something leaving it. At the end a look that had been waiting on the other side of all that accumulation, patient, already knowing the camera would come Deniz Korkmaz